Teaching chance and probability

Here are some resources for teaching chance.

• Studyladder has a range of simple chance activities at various levels. These include possible/impossible statements, and chance experiments.
• Bitesize seems to only include probability from KS2: Bamzooki Probability
• ABC Count Us In Chance game
• Beenleigh has a list of chance games on the web
• Greedy Pig is best played with an understanding of chance. The Game of Skunk seems to be similar
• Rainforest Maths has some good simple chance activities - "How likely is it that a dung beetle will come out of the bag" (!) - so this is great if you have access to Rainforest Maths via Mathletics
• Spinner at shodor.org (Java based)
• A simple coin flipper - you control how many times the coin is flipped
• Virtual coin toss at PBS - you choose how many times to toss the coin, and cumulative stats are recorded
• List of probability related activities at http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/math-prob.html
• BBC Fish Tank - simple fractional probability activity
• IXL Maths has some good chance activities but they have recently restricted free access on a "activities per day" basis - so this is only suitable for small groups or occasional use.

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